Synchrony and Cooperation

By Scott S. Wiltermuth, Chip Heath. Psychology Science, 2009

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Subfields: Cognitive Neuroscience, Social Psychology, Sociology and Political Science

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Does religion increase moral behavior (2015, background): “For example, having groups of individuals performing actions in synchrony — common among religions (as well as militaries and other tightly knit groups) — has been shown to increase feelings of within-group affiliation, fusion, trust, and cooperation [26–28].”
Religious Beliefs as Reflective Elaborations on Intuitions: A Modified Dual-Process Model (2013, background): “Acting in synchrony (e.g. in a military parade, a rowing team, or a religious ceremony) creates an endorphin surge (Cohen, Ejsmond-Frey, Knight, & Dunbar, 2010), increasing social bonding and cooperation (Wiltermuth & Heath, 2009).”
Joint music making promotes prosocial behavior in 4-year-old children☆☆☆ (2010, methodology): “Likewise, the cooperation test in our study was not designed to measure any kind of rational choice of whether collaborating with someone will or will not create higher personal profits as in a classic public goods game for example (as used by Wiltermuth & Heath, 2009).”
Ritual increases children’s affiliation with in-group members☆ (2016, background): “…synchronous movement (even synchronous singing) may increase cooperation, prosociality, as well as self-reported feelings of connection to and trust of group members (Cohen, Ejsmond-Frey, Knight, & Dunbar, 2010; Konvalinka et al., 2011; Reddish, Fischer, & Bulbulia, 2013; Wiltermuth & Heath, 2009).”
The many faces of emotional contagion (2014, neutral): “…understand the association between mimicry and moderating factors, it is worth noting that the relationship between mimicry and social closeness is bidirectional—synchrony itself, even when randomly assigned, promotes rapport (Lakin et al., 2003; van Baaren et al., 2004; Wiltermuth & Heath, 2009).”
Moving in and out of synchrony: A concept for a new intervention fostering empathy through interactional movement and dance (2012, background): “Basic synchronized activity such as synchronized walking results in more cooperation and personal sacrifice in group economic exercises (Wiltermuth & Heath, 2009).”
Long-term musical group interaction has a positive influence on empathy in children (2013, background): “Entrainment has also been shown to promote social interaction and cooperation (Macrae, Duffy, Miles, & Lawrence, 2008; Wiltermuth and Heath, 2009).”
The Phenomenology of Joint Action: Self-Agency vs. Joint-Agency (2012, background): “In addition, recent studies (Wiltermuth & Heath, 2009) indicate that motor synchronization can foster cooperation within groups by strengthening group cohesion.”
Moral psychology is relationship regulation: moral motives for unity, hierarchy, equality, and proportionality. (2011, neutral): “…the words of their customers (van Baaren, Holland, Steengart, & van Knippenberg, 2003), or when participants cooperate more in economic games after walking in step with each other or singing in unison (Wiltermuth & Heath, 2009) or receiving a short massage (Morhenn, Park, Piper, & Zak, 2008).”
Resilience and mental health. (2010, neutral): “…for individuals), or to a genetic resilience resource (internally retrieved by individuals) in ethnically homogeneous groups (Voracek & Loibl, 2008; Wiltermuth & Heath, 2009; McCormick, Frey, Lee, Gajic, Stamatovic-Gajic, & Maksimovic, 2009): for example Japanese women experiencing relatively few…”
The Social Functions of Group Rituals (2016, background): “…when there is a shared goal among participants (Reddish, Fischer, & Bulbulia, 2013), as well as self-reported feelings of connection to group members and trust of group members (Cohen, EjsmondFrey, Knight, & Dunbar, 2010; Fischer, Callander, Reddish, & Bulbulia, 2013; Wiltermuth & Heath, 2009).”
Synchrony and destructive obedience (2012, neutral): “…(Camilleri, 2002), social connectedness (Hove & Risen, 2009; Macrae, Duffy, Miles, & Lawrence, 2008; Marsh, Richardson, & Schmidt, 2009; Miles, Nind, Henderson, & Macrae, 2010; Schmidt & Richardson, 2008), and cooperation within groups (Valdesolo, Ouyang, & DeSteno, 2010; Wiltermuth & Heath, 2009).”
Religion, spirituality, and altruism (2013, background): “It has been facilitated by religious collective rituals that, although costly, constitute opportunities to experience emotions of connectedness (Wiltermuth & Heath, 2009).”
Interpersonal Synchrony: A Survey of Evaluation Methods across Disciplines (2012, background): “Executing a task in synchrony seems to promote cooperation between individuals [51] and to enhance memory of the interaction partner’s utterances and face appearance [52].”